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Your passwords are some of your most sensitive personal information. They’re the
keys that allow you to access your online accounts, be it your cloud storage,
email inbox, or banking accounts. Proton Pass helps millions of people safeguard
their pass

In recent months, we’ve brought a lot of big additions to the Proton ecosystem,
such as Proton VPN for Business, Proton Sentinel, Password Sharing in Proton
Pass, and Proton Drive photo backups in beta. By comparison, we haven’t said a
lot about Prot

- Privacy basics
Most email addresses use the default domain provided by their email service. For
Proton Mail accounts, it’s proton.me. For Gmail, it’s gmail.com. These are
usually free and work just fine for most people.
But there are situations where it makes sens
Proton news
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Your passwords are some of your most sensitive personal information. They’re the
keys that allow you to access your online accounts, be it your cloud storage,
email inbox, or banking accounts. Proton Pass helps millions of people safeguard
their pass

In recent months, we’ve brought a lot of big additions to the Proton ecosystem,
such as Proton VPN for Business, Proton Sentinel, Password Sharing in Proton
Pass, and Proton Drive photo backups in beta. By comparison, we haven’t said a
lot about Prot

Cloud storage is a critical piece of our mission to build an internet that
protects your privacy and secures your data. It’s where you keep your most
sensitive files, from personal photos to identity documents. Unfortunately, the
leading cloud storag
Privacy news
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- Privacy news
On October 26, the UK Parliament passed the Online Safety Act, giving Ofcom, the
UK’s telecoms regulator, broad powers to search for, find, and suppress harmful
media and speech by scanning the internet and, despite widespread condemnation
from the t

On Thursday October 26th, MEPs in the European Parliament held press conferences
outlining the compromises reached within the EU Parliament negotiators on the
controversial Chat Control proposal. The original legal draft, published by the
European Co

As we feared, the UK Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill without making
the necessary changes to safeguard privacy.
The Online Safety Act, as it’s now called, includes a clause that gives the
British government the power to access, collect
Privacy basics
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- Privacy basics
Most email addresses use the default domain provided by their email service. For
Proton Mail accounts, it’s proton.me. For Gmail, it’s gmail.com. These are
usually free and work just fine for most people.
But there are situations where it makes sens

- Privacy basics
Putting a password on your folders is a great way to protect sensitive files
while they’re on your system. It’s pretty easy to do regardless of your
operating system, and this article will take you through each step.
Note though, that password prote

- Privacy basics
Encryption is a way to hide information so private data is kept that way.
Without encryption, anybody could access your communications. In this article,
we go over how it works and some of the different types of encryption there are.
The short expla
Privacy deep dives
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- Privacy deep dives
If a web browser tells you you’re “incognito” and can “browse privately”, you
might assume your online activities are private and no one is collecting your
data. But you’d be wrong.
It’s precisely this ambiguity that has landed Google in the crossha

- Privacy deep dives
In the public eye, Google presents itself as a champion of privacy. “Privacy is
at the heart of everything we do,” its CEO said.
But behind closed doors, Google is telling a different story to policymakers and
actively fighting against privacy laws

- Privacy deep dives
Google has already taken privacy washing to the extreme by trying to brand
itself as “privacy focused”, even though its business model is based on
surveillance.
Lately, the company’s marketing strategy has turned toward outright Orwellian
doublespe